Elena Piano

2.7k total citations
54 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Elena Piano is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Elena Piano has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Ecology, 18 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 14 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Elena Piano's work include Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (25 papers), Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy (14 papers) and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (14 papers). Elena Piano is often cited by papers focused on Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (25 papers), Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy (14 papers) and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (14 papers). Elena Piano collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Finland and Germany. Elena Piano's co-authors include Francesca Bona, Marco Isaia, Elisa Falasco, Alberto Doretto, Stefano Mammola, Stefano Fenoglio, Pier Mauro Giachino, Philippe Vernon, G. Badino and Pedro Cardoso and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Ecology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Elena Piano

52 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Elena Piano Italy 24 770 454 251 208 195 54 1.3k
Valeria Lencioni Italy 25 1.7k 2.2× 630 1.4× 82 0.3× 148 0.7× 288 1.5× 111 2.6k
Francesc Mesquita‐Joanes Spain 21 648 0.8× 228 0.5× 284 1.1× 89 0.4× 95 0.5× 86 1.1k
Ángel Baltanás Spain 19 800 1.0× 323 0.7× 332 1.3× 226 1.1× 154 0.8× 57 1.4k
Carola Gómez‐Rodríguez Spain 24 1.1k 1.4× 546 1.2× 121 0.5× 400 1.9× 425 2.2× 60 1.8k
Giampaolo Rossetti Italy 24 811 1.1× 273 0.6× 584 2.3× 139 0.7× 280 1.4× 85 1.6k
Daniel Spitale Italy 21 815 1.1× 299 0.7× 56 0.2× 83 0.4× 368 1.9× 61 1.3k
Cynthia A. Froyd United Kingdom 22 578 0.8× 301 0.7× 233 0.9× 552 2.7× 260 1.3× 38 1.7k
Manuel Elı́as-Gutiérrez Mexico 20 915 1.2× 355 0.8× 133 0.5× 87 0.4× 120 0.6× 87 1.6k
Triin Reitalu Estonia 24 631 0.8× 722 1.6× 99 0.4× 311 1.5× 480 2.5× 56 1.6k
Carl D. Sayer United Kingdom 26 1.1k 1.5× 639 1.4× 39 0.2× 294 1.4× 172 0.9× 68 1.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Elena Piano

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Elena Piano

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All Works

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Piano, Elena, et al.. (2024). City as a filter: urban density affects taxonomic and functional diversity of foliage dwelling spiders. Landscape Ecology. 40(1). 3 indexed citations
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Falasco, Elisa, et al.. (2024). Dataset of a flow intermittency study: Benthic communities of 13 alpine intermittent rivers. Data in Brief. 54. 110449–110449. 2 indexed citations
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Piano, Elena, et al.. (2022). A literature-based database of the natural heritage, the ecological status and tourism-related impacts in show caves worldwide. Nature Conservation. 50. 159–174. 14 indexed citations
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Mammola, Stefano, Elena Piano, Alberto Doretto, Enrico Caprio, & Dan Chamberlain. (2022). Measuring the influence of non-scientific features on citations. Scientometrics. 127(7). 4123–4137. 23 indexed citations
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Piano, Elena, Giuseppe Nicolosi, & Marco Isaia. (2021). Modulating lighting regime favours a sustainable use of show caves: A case study in NW-Italy. Journal for Nature Conservation. 64. 126075–126075. 14 indexed citations
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Falasco, Elisa, Alberto Doretto, Stefano Fenoglio, Elena Piano, & Francesca Bona. (2020). Supraseasonal drought in an Alpine river: effects on benthic primary production and diatom community. Journal of Limnology. 79(2). 7 indexed citations
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Piano, Elena, et al.. (2020). Islands in cities: Urbanization and fragmentation drive taxonomic and functional variation in ground arthropods. Basic and Applied Ecology. 43. 86–98. 26 indexed citations
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Falasco, Elisa, et al.. (2020). Hydrological intermittency drives diversity decline and functional homogenization in benthic diatom communities. The Science of The Total Environment. 762. 143090–143090. 25 indexed citations
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Doretto, Alberto, Elena Piano, Stefano Fenoglio, et al.. (2020). Beta-diversity and stressor specific index reveal patterns of macroinvertebrate community response to sediment flushing. Ecological Indicators. 122. 107256–107256. 21 indexed citations
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Doretto, Alberto, et al.. (2019). Stay with the flow: How macroinvertebrate communities recover during the rewetting phase in Alpine streams affected by an exceptional drought. River Research and Applications. 36(1). 91–101. 30 indexed citations
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Mammola, Stefano, Elena Piano, Pedro Cardoso, et al.. (2019). Climate change going deep: The effects of global climatic alterations on cave ecosystems. The Anthropocene Review. 6(1-2). 98–116. 105 indexed citations
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Doretto, Alberto, Elena Piano, Elisa Falasco, et al.. (2018). Investigating the role of refuges and drift on the resilience of macroinvertebrate communities to drying conditions: An experiment in artificial streams. River Research and Applications. 34(7). 777–785. 26 indexed citations
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Mammola, Stefano, et al.. (2018). Ecological speciation in darkness? Spatial niche partitioning in sibling subterranean spiders (Araneae : Linyphiidae : Troglohyphantes). Invertebrate Systematics. 32(5). 1069–1082. 23 indexed citations
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Doretto, Alberto, et al.. (2017). Trophic availability buffers the detrimental effects of clogging in an alpine stream. The Science of The Total Environment. 592. 503–511. 26 indexed citations
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Piano, Elena, et al.. (2017). Local versus landscape spatial influence on biodiversity: a case study across five European industrialized areas. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 189(3). 126–126. 6 indexed citations
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Piano, Elena, Elisa Falasco, & Francesca Bona. (2016). Mediterranean rivers: Consequences of water scarcity on benthic algal chlorophyll a content. Journal of Limnology. 76(s1). 16 indexed citations
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Mammola, Stefano, et al.. (2016). Ecology and sampling techniques of an understudied subterranean habitat: the Milieu Souterrain Superficiel (MSS). Die Naturwissenschaften. 103(11-12). 88–88. 83 indexed citations
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Mammola, Stefano, et al.. (2015). Seasonal dynamics and micro-climatic preference of two Alpine endemic hypogean beetles. International Journal of Speleology. 44(3). 239–249. 23 indexed citations
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Doretto, Alberto, Francesca Bona, Elisa Falasco, et al.. (2015). Fine sedimentation affects CPOM availability and shredder abundance in Alpine streams. Journal of Freshwater Ecology. 31(2). 299–302. 25 indexed citations

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